Emotional intelligence: Its concept, models, and applications in the school area

In recent years, there has been a great interest for researchers and thinkers in the fields of education, psychology and social issues of emotional intelligence, is the analysis of the role that emotions play in the context of education in particular, the deepening of the influence of the emotional intelligence variable in both the determination of students' academic success and their adaptation to school. In this article, we will first examine the main historical antecedents of the IE concept; delimit its definition and the different scales of measurement, and other Analyze the relationship between (EI), academic performance .